{"id":17820,"date":"2014-10-22T19:40:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T02:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17820"},"modified":"2014-10-22T19:40:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T02:40:43","slug":"the-monster-mash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/the-monster-mash\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monster Mash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/ockmrtp.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos left to right: Halloween Hearse Parade; Dead Ringers Look-alike contest; Trick or Treat for Kids; Franklin Haynes Marionettes Hilarious Halloween Haunt puppet show; and Freak Show Deluxe&#8217;s Skeleton Crew<\/p>\n<p>COSTA MESA, CALIF. &#8212; Who says that kids get to have all the fun? Halloween is a training ground in which parents teach their children how to celebrate one of America&#8217;s favorite make-believe events. The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/costa-mesa-halloween.html\">Monster Mash and Hearse Parade<\/a> sponsored by Orange County Market Place has something for every kid, young &amp; old. Here are just a few highlights to a fun day set to the backdrop of a big outdoor shopping mall and farmers market:<\/p>\n<p>1. I Scream for Ice Cream &#8211; kids contest<br \/>\n2.\u00a0Dead Ringers Costume Contest &#8211; for adults dressing and looking like famous personalities<br \/>\n3. Halloween Hearse Parade &#8211; includes a Bug &amp; Monster Car Show<br \/>\n4. Trick or Treat &#8211; for kids<br \/>\n5. Monster Talent \u2013 carvin&#8217; out fun with monster sculptors, Peculiar Pumpkin Portraits and Thai fruit carving artists<br \/>\n6. Creepy Crawlers &#8211; Southern California Herpetology Association &amp; Rescue exhibition of snakes, tarantulas and reptiles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos left to right: Halloween Hearse Parade; Dead Ringers Look-alike contest; Trick or Treat for Kids; Franklin Haynes Marionettes Hilarious Halloween Haunt puppet show; and Freak Show Deluxe&#8217;s Skeleton Crew COSTA MESA, CALIF. &#8212; Who says that kids get to have all the fun? Halloween is a training ground in which parents teach their children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}